I have a copy of BLAG 91000 and want to install it. I am still using 70000. I want to make sure that I keep my setting for Thunderbird and Firefox. If I copy them to cd or dvd and then copy them back into my home directory will this solve the problem? Are there differences between the versions of Firefox that are installed with my current version and 91k. What about the new Firefox and Thunderbird versions? I heard that Firefox 3.51 is now out.

As long as you make backups of your ~/.mozilla and ~/.thunderbird folders (I suggest archiving them in a .tar.gz with file-roller), everything will be fine. The versions of Firefox and Thunderbird included with 90001 will gracefully upgrade your profile to work with the new version, though I suggest keeping a backup just in case something does go wrong.

Hi I tried to copy the mozilla and thunderbird settings from my 70k distro to blag 90k1. I created a archive of each as a tarball. I then tied to open them on my desktop. I have not suceed with them. Mainly with mozilla at this point. When I tried to copy the file over from archive mounter ( did I tell you I hate this program, I miss file roller) It would begin tocopy the file but then I would get an error message "There was an error copying the file to /home/tim/.mozilla. File does not exist.. Ireally need to copy the bookmarks. I have not even tried yet with thunderbird. I need to get my old emails and address copied.

Hi I tried to copy the mozilla and thunderbird settings from my 70k distro to blag 90k1. I created a archive of each as a tarball. I then tied to open them on my desktop. I have not suceed with them. Mainly with mozilla at this point. When I tried to copy the file over from archive mounter ( did I tell you I hate this program, I miss file roller) It would begin tocopy the file but then I would get an error message "There was an error copying the file to /home/tim/.mozilla. File does not exist.. Ireally need to copy the bookmarks. I have not even tried yet with thunderbird. I need to get my old emails and address copied.

If you don't like archive mounter, you can install file roller or xarchiver from yum.

First you should check if the correct directories exist, open a terminal and go

Code:

ls -ld .mozillals -l .mozilla/firefox

If the .mozilla directory doesn't exist, start firefox and then shut it down again. If it doesn't exist after that ask again here.the second command above should list a few directories including one called something like d9ehgekx.default , but your string of characters will be different. that's where you want to put your bookmarks file.I'm assuming you archived the whole .mozilla directory from your previous set-up and that it's a tar.gz archive. In that case the directory containing the bookmarks file will have a different name. to find it enter

Code:

tar -tzvf yourarchive.tar.gz | grep bookmarks.html

You're looking for the one with a name like

Code:

.mozilla/firefox/d9eyezkx.default/bookmarks.html

but again with a different string of characters. to extract just that file

Sorry, that I took so long responding back but I have been otherwise occupied. The bookmarks did not change. However, I was able to go into the .mozilla directory and bring it up as a webpage, which I bookedmarked . In Thunderbird, the settings and emails did not translate when I copied them. The addresses did however copy and that was a help.

I should apologise that my original reply was incomplete. Firefox 3 no longer keeps bookmarks as an html file (I must have known this at some point as I migrated my bookmark, but memory is a fickle thing). The bookmarks and browser history are now stored in places.sqlite.

So the file /home/tim/.mozilla/frefox/qzo0ixe1.default/bookmarks.html now needs to be imported. In firefox go to :

'Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks -> Import & Backup -> Import HTML'

and select your bookmarks file. this will add your old bookmarks to the existing ones.

You can also export an HTML file from here, If you want Firefox 3 to create an automatic html backup when you exit Firefox then you can set the pref browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML to true on the about:config page. Regular backups as .json file are stored in '/home/tim/.mozilla/frefox/qzo0ixe1.default/bookmarkbackups'.

My reply about thunderbird was also incomplete, so my apologies again. The prefs.js file contains the information about patshs to mail folders etc. and this now probably has a mismatch. So, I'd recommend going back to your archive and extracting everthing under the directory '.thunderbird/########.default' (######## is a string of characters) . Put it all in a directory of the same name one your system, so that you now have
/home/tim/.thunderbird/68oeyq23.default' as well as
/home/tim/.thunderbird/########.default
Doing this has created a new profile and you now need to edit /home/tim/.thunderbird/profile.ini to point to this new profile.

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